Word: train
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ladies felt a little trepidation. Pug-nosed, cheerful Monsignor Tiernan, the boys' old World War I chaplain, had never been a stern watchdog and he didn't look like one. His charges-staid-looking Midwest businessmen-were kicking up a mild and happy uproar when the train pulled out. They were the boys of Harry Truman's old Battery D, 129th Field Artillery, A.E.F., on their way to Washington for the big show...
...Boston & Maine announced yesterday that its snow trains would run for the first time this winter. There will be a special excursion train leaving North Station for North Conway at 8:10 a.m. tomorrow morning and due in the north country at 11:40 a.m. and returning at 5 p.m., giving passengers a whole afternoon of skiing...
...Bolero. Surgeon Ivanissevich is also a singer. Last month, traveling with the presidential party on a long, dusty train ride back to the capital from the interior, Evita Perón said: "Ivan, why don't you sing us a bolero?" The courtly, white-suited, white-tied Secretary dug out a guitar, swung into a popular number called Luna Lunera...
...thumbing through [other magazines] I've often found myself skipping-the solid reading matter . . ." What text there was in Heritage could be skipped also. Example: "A nation's heritage is its people-'the fellers' in for a river swim, a girl waiting for a train...
...first big postwar coming-out party, the debut of the 1949 Chevrolet and Pontiac, General Motors Corp. had spent a million dollars. The world's biggest automaker had bundled threescore U.S. automotive editors (and plenty of potables) aboard its Astra Domed, diesel-drawn "Train of Tomorrow," for a free ride from Detroit to New York. It would pick up the tab for a three-day whirl of luncheons, receptions and banquets for 5,000 people. All over the U.S., G.M. dealers were also cutting capers; Omaha Chevrolet dealers sent a flagpole sitter aloft for nine days...